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Old vintage canning jars can be found at yard sales and thrift stores and they look cool but what do you do with them once you get them home? For the black thumbs amongst us who can't keep a plant alive, a terrarium is a perfect place to let livin...

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Ben Heine owns warring creative tools.
The Belgian artist writes he's been taking photos and drawing for almost 10 years; it wasn't until he was watching TV and writing a letter at the same time that these skills collided. "Reading my letter bef...

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In preparation for this year's Big Brain awards, we're checking up with a few of last year's winners. Know an emerging creative who could use $1000? Nominate 'em right here before March 14.
Our Big Brain today: Marcelino Quionez.
photo b...

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Three signs of a good First Friday: nice people, good art (this sculputre's by Benjamin Phillips at eyelounge gallery), AND people enjoying art. Seriously.
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This past Friday was a great chance to get out, see some art and check out the Downtown s...

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The first Wild Wild West Con took over the Hotel Tucson and Old Tucson Studios over the weekend, highlighting the world of steampunk, which combines the technology of the Industrial Revolution with Victorian Fashion (and American Western wear and m...

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First Friday March 2011
First Friday presented Phoenicians with many events to attend, including the showing of Mutant Piatas at Bragg's Pie Factory on Grand, and of course, First Friday art walk on Roosevelt Row. Bragg's was packed with dif...

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Fairey's work on University Drive and Forest Ave (left top and bottom) and Mill Avenue and 10th Street (right)
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Shepard Fairey's wheat pastes may be scattered around Tempe, but don't expect to find him downing a toddy at Cartel or grabbing a few ...

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View from halfway up Alta Trail in South Mountain
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I didn't make it to the end of South Mountain's Alta Trail on Sunday. I wasn't sick. I wasn't even tired.
I was bored.
There's nothing particularly wrong with Alta Trail.
The 4.5-mile tr...

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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local,
international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's --
what's yours?
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French artist JR began photographing shortly after finding his first camera in a Par...

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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local,
international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's --
what's yours?
http://weareswimmingcities.org
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Right now, thousands of miles away, a ragtag group o...

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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local,
international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's --
what's yours?
http://www.read.gov/exquisite-corpse
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Rest assured, we're not talking about dead pe...

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First Friday Night Live SEASON FINALE @ The Firehouse Gallery
As if giving New Times contributor Leslie Barton a sex change and pulling a burlesque star in a golden chariot wasn't over-the-top enough, this uninhibited, uncensored variety/improv...

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Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans
and less about the actual art. We're here to guide you through both.
Presenting our very own Field Guide -- an evolving guide to art walks around town.
From time to time, we'll intr...

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Mike Miskowski putting the finishing touches on a mutant pinata.
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It's after 7 p.m. when Steve Weiss rolls up to The Lodge, a collective art space on Grand Avenue. He's packing wine and his face is plastered with the kind of grin children wear wh...

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It won't be hard to spot England-born, New-York Based author and salon guru Lorraine Massey when she comes to Changing Hands on Monday: She'll be giving straight talk to curly-haired women (and men) about embracing their hair, . She'll also have th...

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Nothing goes better with a movie than dinner (and perhaps vise versa), which Chow Bella has all figured out.
Dinner and a Movie pairs all sorts of films with themed recipes each week. And today, they picked I Am Love,
starring Tilda Swinton, who...

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It's about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we're losing track of the times we've said, "Woah, when did that go up?", we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up...

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Mothers and their daughters do many things together, from shopping and getting manicures to cooking holiday meals. But Kathy Tee and her daughter, Nancy Tee, do something together that not many mother-daughter duos do: they're activists and advocat...